Falkvinge

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by Falkvinge 14y ago
No, I said that it doesn't matter whether an entity aiding noncommercial filesharing is itself commercial (like The Pirate Bay might be; just having ads does not make an entity commercial). The analogy with the postal service made earlier
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
> I especially find interesting the proposal to use R&D for the pharmaceutical industry from the Government. I just don't know how practical that is. It would need serious commitment and serious investment from Governments to do th
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
TPB may or may not be commercial, and it doesn't matter in the slightest here, as they're aiding a noncommercial and therefore legal sharing of knowledge and culture. Aiding that would always be legal under this proposal. Somebody making
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
This isn't ridiculous at all. To use a parallel, you can commercially facilitate non-commercial dating as much as you like, and many websites make a killing out of doing so. If they were to facilitate commercial dating (prostitution), i
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
> There's a very important reason only documentation of sex crimes against minors is banned -- there isn't a big market for watching videos of murders. Ahem. Fox News, CNN, al-Jazeera, BBC, ... The market for videos of murders (wartime
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Thank you for this additional information about specifics of the United States. The described case with accidentally recording and realizing you accidentally recorded still makes you culpable under the "knowingly", though. Cheers, Rick
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Thank you for addressing me personally and wishing my premature death. However, I have no intention of obliging you in this particular matter. Cheers and enjoy the Sunday night, Rick
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Headlines, unfortunately, need to catch people's attention. That's their job.
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
Not exactly - in this case, a person on Twitter found a two-year-old article showing that this particular judge was corrupt in copyright monopoly cases. There is nothing denoting how "official" the conclusion is, not inherently in the expre
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by Falkvinge 14y ago
As I write in the comments - once you've corrupted yourself as an official to the level of the 2010 case, you cannot UN-corrupt yourself in the eyes of the public. It is of paramount importance for the credibility of the judicial impartiali
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
just like the previous international waves like the green movement and that silly workers' party
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
Also worth noting: the Austrian pirate party entered the polls at 7% with a sonic boom on April 7.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
I wonder why the photo says "Nerz Attends". His name is Sebastian Nerz. My guess is that somebody chose the first two words from a random sentence (i.e. "Nerz attends the general assembly") and tagged the photo with that as a name.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
I use OpenShot and an old copy of After Effects (version 6.5) that works under WINE.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
About breakeven for the time being, but I also learned a scary lot about how trading works in the process.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
The VM is an old Windows XP that I bought (legitimately!) for $10 as a Microsoft employee. Perhaps it was $15. Thereabouts, anyway.
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10 weeks to kill ACTA: Europarl decided today to skip court and press for vote(falkvinge.net)
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
This madman, and Pingdom (tools.pingdom.com) says the page loads in 2.5 seconds, clocking it in at about the median of pages. I load it it in 4-5 seconds even on my _Android_. What rig are you using that could conceivably make it 6 times sl
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
Thank you for this little gem. I have added it as an update.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
It was intended as "whatever you call them" rhetoric.
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by Falkvinge 15y ago
Go to any consumer electronics store and try to buy a computer not running any code from one of these two companies. Yes, if you're a sysadmin, getting naked iron is no problem. But you're gonna have code from these running on your network,